i haven't written for several reasons. one, i don't have much good to say. two, my arms and shoulder are really in pain right now from aggravated tendinitis. this arm pain making typing difficult and i need to save all i can for my studio. and three, i am just in the thick of production for this big show and my "internet energy" is quite low.
angry. angry is how i've been feeling lately.
my skin feels thin. my resistance to stress isn't strong. my emotional immune system is compromised.
i have two chronic conditions that have flared up quite painfully in the past several weeks. being in pain usually makes me depressed (ok, i am depressed, but medicated) yet lately the pain is just making me so angry. i want to scream from the rooftops - it all seems so unfair.
in the past three years, i've spent months and months in pain, trying to heal first the arm issue and then the heel. i have a bone spur on my heal which makes even walking just awful. it was nearly better after 8 months of working on healing last year. then the cancer and months of being sedentary. when i finally got back to exercise, i walked slowly, i wasn't crazy about it. i was doing pretty well at the beginning of may. then i got some treatment from a chiropractor that seemed to irritate the heel, followed by going to my dear friend's wedding and dancing just to 3 songs. it was a mess after that. but really, what kind of life is it when you cannot dance at your friend's wedding? that makes me so mad!
mad at my body for failing me. mad at myself for not being healthy, for letting my job(s) be more important than my health for so long. mad at the waste of it all.
for months i've tried to look at and write about what i was gaining from this cancer experience. i didn't even know how angry i was.
angry is not pretty. it is not sympathetic. who wants to read about angry?
a dear friend told me this week it doesn't matter what anyone wants to read. i need to write it, the ugly stuff, the unsavory. so i am writing about loss. not what i've learned from the cancer experience, (hell, from all my shitty health problems). but what i have lost. what i lose on a daily basis.
i think i will make a list. tune in tomorrow for more.
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Having watched several family members going through this I understand. I would feel exactly the same way. Life can be so unfair sometimes. I'd like to say "This too shall pass" but then I'm not going through what you are experiencing and those words would probably irritate the hell out of me. Sending you cyber hugs and lots of positive vibes.
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